Reporter Barry Cummins revealed gardai examined the footage as part of the initial probe into the Filipina's abduction.

He told Miriam O'Callaghan: "Gardai are gathering all the CCTV footage from the area and also the Dublin Bus cameras which would have been of use in identifying Jastine and also leading to Mark Hennessy as well.

"I know the footage on the bus that Jastine got off actually captures the vehicle travelling up towards Jastine."

Cummins also gave details of the initial witness reports given to gardai after Jastine was bundled into the boot of Hennessy's car.

He said: "The first 999 call was made at 24 minutes past six last Saturday evening, a woman calling as she was with a 12-year-old boy who had described as seeing a car parked on the Kilcroney Road in Enniskerry and a woman being bundled into the boot of the car.

"We know the relevant car has a visible boot as it were so the boy would have seen Jastine placed in the boot of the car.

"The initial report there described a brown SUV. The garda helicopter was dispatched, three patrol cars as well.

"But out at the scene, all that was found at that time was a paper bag and bread inside it. It would later transpire that the bread was Jastine's.

"The next emergency call comes at twenty past seven on Saturday. A man had spoken to his wife about what he had seen before contacting gardai.

"He described seeing an Asian woman in distress in a black Nissan SUV in Enniskerry, the woman was in the boot, shouting for help and gesticulating.'"

He said: “The facts of the crime itself would seem to be very much impulsive. There appeared to be no foresight or planning in terms of getting false number plates for the vehicle or whatever, it was in daylight in front of witnesses.

“When you look at crimes like abduction of women I would think that there is an element and certainly low self-esteem must be a factor because you’re creating a situation where all of a sudden you have power.